OK, oscillator failure analysis step one: Cleaning residual solder off the underside so it sits flat on the mill table. Then a final cleaning with acetone to get any flux residue off.

I wasn't sure if I could mount it to the mill table without it flying off because it was so small, so I mounted it to a ~1cm copper disk with some crystalbond wax.

This will make it much easier to find if I drop it, and give more area for me to attach to the chuck with double-sided tape.

And mounted up on the mill
Starting to thin down the edges of the lid
OK that's thinned down a bunch let's see if i can get in with a scalpel now...
Starting to go...
Almost there just need to peel the lid off fully

Pretty happy with the results for a surgical decap.

It looks like the quartz crystal sits on top and the oscillator driver is under it. Unfortunately we can't see the oscillator die without destroying the crystal.

Nothing looks obviously damaged, I'll do some higher mag images next.

Composite of three focal planes (upper bond pads/crystal surface, lower bond pads, top of package) on the Labsmore/Mitutoyo system.

The left two pads clearly have connections to the driver IC but aren't very visible with the DOF of this system at the chosen focal planes.

It's interesting that the quartz is a somewhat textured surface, I expected a mirror polish.

Nothing looks obviously broken here. Given the fact that the thing isn't oscillating and the history of ultrasonic cleaning I expected to see the quartz plate come out in multiple fragments (one of the reason I wanted to be so cautious opening it, I didn't want to lose shards of it).

Any ideas on other tests or angles I should do before I try to remove the quartz (likely destroying it in the process) to expose the controller die and see if maybe something is up with the wire bonds?

I don't think I can test electrical connectivity between the quartz and the mounting pads with my current setup, gut feeling is that touching it with any of my existing probe needles would shatter it. Maybe I'll try if I'm going to rip it out or something.

Wire bonds from the controller die to the package, seen through the quartz crystal so pretty blurry.

But they definitely look like second / wedge bonds from gold ball bonding.

Top surface of the quartz crystal. Looks like the gold metallization is super thin, it doesn't appear to be causing any change in the texture. Not sure how it's deposited - lithography of some sort I assume, maybe sputtered through a mask? The etched texture seems uniform through the edge of the gold pattern.

Bottom right terminal with focal plane swept from top surface down to the package pad.

No visually evident damage or cracks here.

@azonenberg can you bodge up a probe and look at s21 on the VNA? The resonator might be fine.
@aholtzma I'm thinking about how I'd get probes down on something so small without damaging it
@azonenberg what package is that? Guessing not 3225.
@aholtzma It is actually, ECS-TXO-3225MV-100-TR
@azonenberg I’m surprised the resonator fills the package, some manufacturers have been shrinking it down to 2520 size or smaller. Do you still have it? Curious what the thickness was.
@aholtzma i still have it, can attempt to measure